How to Uninstall OpenOffice.org

Why would I do that, you ask? Because of Abiword and Gnumeric. Abiword is a word-processor and Gnumeric is a spreadsheet and they’re both far superior to OpenOffice.org’s offerings. Now if you do presentations regularly, then this is not for you, but if you don’t you have no excuse. This frees up 200 MB on your hard drive, as well as bringing the added benefits of less memory usage and faster app start up times.

First, we have to uninstall OpenOffice.org. The best way to do this is to type this command into the Terminal (Applications>Accesories>Terminal):

sudo apt-get remove openoffice*

The “sudo apt-get remove” part of the code is the generic code to uninstall any program. “openoffice*” Means that any packages that start with “openoffice” should be targeted by the command.

And to install abiword and gnumeric:

sudo apt-get install abiword

and then

sudo apt-get install gnumeric

And Voila!